HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 Release Notes

• Interoperability
• Enhanced Thermal Shutdown
• Options for HP 3PAR OS Software Upgrades
Assured QoS and resiliency enhancements
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage
HP 3PAR Priority Optimization now provides the ability to set minimum goals and maximum limit
for IOPs (that is performance) and bandwidth. You can define Latency Goals for the most
mission-critical applications. To ensure that the latency goals are achieved, the system automatically
adjusts the service levels of lower-priority applications and workloads and ensures that the necessary
QoS levels for highest priority applications are maintained. With the combination of Priority
Optimization and Virtual Domains, you can specify these thresholds to protect individual tenants
and to prevent a single tenant from monopolizing resources. These capabilities allow you to deliver
assured QoS levels without having to physically partition resources or maintain discreet storage
silos thus eliminating any barrier to consolidation.
Virtual Domains eliminate the last barrier to consolidation by integrating with HP 3PAR Priority
Optimization. This enables performance assurance for most mission-critical virtual domains. It is
possible to use Priority Optimization to prioritize not just an application or workload, but also a
virtual domain or a tenant using the multi-tenant system such as different departments, business
units, customers, and so on.
System Reporter allows configuring user-defined alerts directly on a HP 3PAR StoreServ by using
the SR-On-Node data.
New enhanced on-node historical statistic allows the user to monitor:
• Historical data reports for SSD wear gauge
• Historical performance data reports for Remote Copy links
• Historical performance data reports for Remote Copy volumes
Persistent Ports support is extended to iSCSI and FCoE array target connectivity. Persistent Ports
support for Fiber Channel connectivity is enhanced to provide controller node connection status
detection. This provides protection against link loss between the array node port and the SAN
switch. This supports high availability in virtualized environments by automatically failing over a
host facing controller node port that experiences link loss due to a cable or a switch failure.
Flash Storage Optimizations
HP continues to invest and lead in Flash technologies. HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 provides the following
new optimizations:
• Higher IOPS and lower latency for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 systems with improved handling
of SAS interrupts
• Adaptive Sparing technology implemented with new 480 GB and 920 GB SSDs to enhance
their endurance (available on HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 systems)
Increased Scalability
The increased scalability only applies to HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 and 10000 models.
NOTE: New increased scalability numbers do not apply to HP 3PAR F- class and T- class storage
systems.
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